This is the 3rd in my series of recycled-paper-laminate Frog-banjo sculptures. This one has a 12-inch pot diameter, is fretted, and has 6-strings rather than the traditional 5 (or 4 in the case of a tenor banjo); I love having the extra bass string.
Other materials include flame-figured Big Leaf maple for the neck, and acacia for the fingerboard. The sounding membrane is goatskin stretched tight and held with upholstery tacks and glue, as might be found on early 19th-century banjos.
Frog #3 recently underwent eye surgery; his left, bulging eye turned out to bulge a bit too much into the players lap, in an unpleasant sort of way. Sometimes you only discover mistakes by making them! So, the offending eyeball got surgically removed and replaced with a less protruding model. You can see this if you look at the included detail pictures; he's now winking devilishly!
Here I play an old song on Frog # 3, Swing On The Golden Gate:
This is the 3rd in my series of recycled-paper-laminate Frog-banjo sculptures. This one has a 12-inch pot diameter, is fretted, and has 6-strings rather than the traditional 5 (or 4 in the case of a tenor banjo); I love having the extra bass string.
Other materials include flame-figured Big Leaf maple for the neck, and acacia for the fingerboard. The sounding membrane is goatskin stretched tight and held with upholstery tacks and glue, as might be found on early 19th-century banjos.
Frog #3 recently underwent eye surgery; his left, bulging eye turned out to bulge a bit too much into the players lap, in an unpleasant sort of way. Sometimes you only discover mistakes by making them! So, the offending eyeball got surgically removed and replaced with a less protruding model. You can see this if you look at the included detail pictures; he's now winking devilishly!
Here I play an old song on Frog # 3, Swing On The Golden Gate: